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CHICAGO — One week after instant replay failed at the beginning of last year's Penn State-Ohio State game, the Big Ten added one more piece of technology to its replay booths: a television. That way, if a similar situation happens again, Big Ten replay officials can watch the live broadcast feed just like fans at home. That was something they couldn't do before, the Big Ten's coordinator of officials said Friday. And it was one of several new measures borne from a game punctuated by two high-profile officiating decisions. "My philosophy is, I man up," Bill Carollo, the Big Ten's coordinator of officials, said in an interview Friday at the Big Ten media...

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